Mileage or percentage sheet or chart for public carriers.



Patented Nov..4, |902.

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F. H. JONES.

(Application led Nov. 25, 1901.)

MILEGE 0R PERGENAGE SHEETDR CHART FOR PUBLAIG CARRIERS.

(No Model.)

No. 712,544. Patented Nov. 4, |902;

F. H. Jones; l l MILEAGE 0R lPERCENTAGE SHEET 0R CHART FOR PUBLIC CARRIERS.

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FRANKH. JONES, on KEoKUK, IOWA,

MILEAGE-OR PERCENTAGE SHEET R CHART TOR PUBLlC CARRIERS.'

SPEGIFLGATION formingpare of Letters raten@ No, 712,544, dated November 4, 1902. i Application tiled November 25, 1901. Serial No. 83,597. (No model.)`

To @ZZ whom it may concern/'.4

Be it known that I, FRANK H.' JONES, a citizen of the United States, residingat Keokuk, in the county of Lee and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mileage or Percentage Sheets or Charts for Public Carriers, of which the following is a specification.

The inventionrelates to a sheet or chart lo for the keeping of mileage and percentage records or tables of a system o frailroads by divisions, grand divisions, counties, States, or any other separation that is desirable to` make, aswill more fullyhereinafter appear. x5 The object of the inventionis to provide a simple, economical, and efcient sheet lor chart for recording .mileages and percentages `for transportation companies of all kinds;` and the invention*` consists inw the features and combinations hereinafter described and claimed. i J f f7 t `Inthe accompanyingdrawings,Figure l is` an illnstrationro'f` afsheetfor "chartrmade in accordance withtheseimprovements; Fig; 2, 2 5 a diagrammatic view of the `system involved as set forth `in myiunproveuients,Land"Fig,` 3 s, a diagrammatic `vievv ofthe system involved" Y under the old orexisting methods o f keeping",l mileages and` percentagesonthefsheets@now in use.` f p i `In the art to Whichjthis inventionielaies it is Well known that thekeepidngof mileage and percentage rec rdsisan arduous, `labori ous, and expens' elprocess,linvolvingltref, mendous outlay, "largenu'mber of entries, and considerable` ime.` In the :present sys; `tem andtaking p blic'carrier thatfhasa1` large number@ sions, likeone of the ,hich has'in the neighl` r Xdivisins andfive hun` `es about1 two thousand `sheetsto keep the records `in ner, owing to the factthat borhood of twe dred` stations, diiferent formsI a satisfactory,`

diate divisions over which particular loads desired number of sheets havingthe divi- ,sions marked thereon at the sides or top or `termediate cross-spaces `illedin wththe formed by the main vertical lines into two"` lparts, in `which may be enumerated the mile,- ages andpercentages for either or both divi#` 1 be seen, divide the space labor, and expense, as Wellas a great advantage in results and ability to obtain desired information in a short time. In this art it is `also well known that in distributing credits according to the mileages the bookkeeper lusually had `to turn-to one of these two thousand (more orless) pages to find out the exact ,percentage due the division terminal which 6o he has charge of. i

This invention, therefore, is intended, primarily, to assist himA in posting the credits and earnings of his particular terminal division or divisions with regard to the intermehave been hauled by providing him with a any othserdesired` place and having the in- 7o" miles of each terminal and percentage accruing to such terminal or terminalswith regard to the intermediates over which the load was "hauled, as willinore fully hereinafter appear. In making a table in accordance with these [improvements I take a sheet aof the desired' size and shape and -provide it `with a set 'of mainhorizontalflines b and rintermediate horizontal lines c; The' space between the 8o main horizontal lines at the left-hand side is y `used to print or otherwise insert thereon the stations d of one division-viz., division 15- as shown in the drawings at the head ofthe column.` v'lhe set of intermediate horizontal 85 lines c are provided to `divide the space` sio"ns,tas*shown attheleft of the column, 15 orf; I next provideaset or series of main vertical lines e, betweenlwhich orin the space thereof at the` head of` the icolumnsformed l thereby is arranged thenames of a set of tations f of afseconddivisione-say division 9 5 s shown to the left `of the Anames of the ns.` L The; `spacesformed bythe 'mai `ticalwlines are again divided by ,tfot'f ntermediate verticalilines l t by the Icon* ainvertical andhorizontalllnesintoffour "spaces l, 2, 3, `and 4, andttvolinainspaces,` y =so `as to provide for` the indicating of `the ,mileages by lvIVand percentaffesbyo These columns,therefore-the horizontalfand vertical'columns of stations-provide spaces in which is printed or otherwise inserted a record of mileages and percentages from the stations on one of the terminal divisions to the stations on the other division. For inlstance, suppose a carload of freight be sent from Cassville to Crown Hill. That would be from one of. the stations on terminal division 15. In space 1, therefore, the `r`nile age would be placed as, say, one hundred and seventy-two miles. In space 3 the percentagel of revenue would be placed, which for conveniuce we will make fourteen.

Considering the terminals of division 55, the mileage of travel 107 over such terminal division should be placed in space 2 and the percentage of revenue tov be credited to the same division-viz., .O9 per cent-should be printed in space 4. It will be seen that there is a balance of seventy-seven per cent. to be distributed among the intermediate divisions at the top, which percentage is treated as a unit-viz., one hundred per cent.-so that the book-keeper or other employee can look at such recordat the top and see just howmuch of the amount earned is due each of the intermediate divisions. Of course it will be understood that this amount may be carried to the credit of these intermediate divisions along with, possibly, a thousand like or different amounts to be entered in a lump at the end of the term; but the percentage due to one of these intermediates is obtained from a 'glance at the figures at the top, as hereinafter set forth.

For convenience I also prefer to place ou the top of this sheet aa printed form of blank for keeping a record of the mileages and per-` centages for the intermediate division. In the spaces 5 and 6 at the head of the columns formed by the vertical line arearranged under the proper division-numbers and underl the particular characters of mileage and percentage, as M and 00 marks, the mileage of each intermediate division and the percentage of earnings to which it is entitled. For instance,`division 7 has a mileage-ot' twenty-six, and the percentage due it of the intermediate proportion is three per cent.

`Division 13 has a mileage of fifty-three, and the percentage due of its intermediate proportion is six per cent. Division 19 has one hundred and fourteen miles, and its percentage of earnings accruing from the intermediate divisions is twelve per cent. In other words,

- the intermediates are treated as one hundred per cent. and their mileage takeu as the basis from which the percentage of earnings to be vcredited them is determined.

1 keeper or other employee, therefore, will take thefseventy-seven per cent. which is vleft from the Cassville-Crown Hill haul and by the iigures'i'n the spaces 5 and 6 will credit each intermediate division with its proper amo-unt. From the foregoing and an examination of the diagram shown in Fig. 2, which is illus- The book- 'the stations for the other division are placed in a vertical column in the spaces formed by the horizontal lines 'at' one end of the sheet. In the body of the sheet it will be seen the mileages and percentages for each terminal division are 4shown as between stations, while on'another portion of the form-at the top and in the spaces 5 and d percentage and mileage of the intermediate divisions involved may be shown. The percentages for the intermediate divisions are made by, say, treating such divisions, as shown in Fig. 2, from Edgemont to Fulton as a unit independent of the terminal divisions and dividing-the proportions therein, or the mileage pro rata as appears from the records of the company. This form or sheet is numbered or paged according to the two terminal divisions shown in the upper right-hand corner of the sheetviz., 15 and -though whatever characters are used for indicating the terminal divisions will also be used for indicating the sheet.

' In the diagram shown in Fig. 3 an illustration of the present system of recording is shown, which shows that each terminal treated with every other terminal or intermediate must be treated independently and that instead of using one sheet, as can be used in the system shown in the diagram of Fig. 2, sixty-four sheets would have to be used, as the business between eachtwo points would have to be treated separately, and there are eight points on one terminal and eight points on the other terminal,wl1ich would make eight times eight, or sixty-four dierent classes.

It will be understood that all of the mileages andpercentages in the sheet shown in Fig. 1 are not filled in on account ofthe labor it would require andbecauseit might result in making the invention appear ambiguous.` In other words, with all of the spaces printed and filled in kwith the proper percentages it might be vVery difficult to follow the invention. It wiil be understood, however, athat such are actually filled in and'that the sheets are used as a guide for the percentages, taking the whole as one hundred per cent.

-and then treating the balance as ayunit .to

X the credit of the intermediate divisions.

I claim- 1. A sheet of the character described provided with appropriately-des'ignated spaces for characters indicative of the respective mileages and percentages of two railway-terminal divisions, and an auxiliary index` :indicative of the respective mileages `and percentages ofthe divisions of railwayintermediate of said terminal divisions, substantially as described.

2. A sheet of the character described-pro- IIC) ,iso

vided With-appropriately-designated spaces for charactersi indicative of `fthe respective mileages and percentages of tWo railway-terminal divisions, and a supplement to said sheet having appropriately-designated spaces for characters indicative of the respective mileages and percentages of the divisions of railway intermediate of said terminal divisions, substantially as described.

3. A sheet of the character described provided With appropriately-designated spaces.

for percentage-indicator characters relating to railwayterininal divisions, and an auxiliary index bearing percentage-indicatorchar: acters relating to the divisions of railway interinediate of said terminal divisions, substantially` as described. L

4. A sheet of the character described pro,`

videdy with appropriately-designated spacesV for percentage-indicator characters relating to railway-terminal divisions, and a supple# ment to said sheet having appropriately-designated spaces for percentage-indicator characters relating to the divisions of railway intermediate of said terminal divisions,sub stantially as described.

i FRANK H. JONES.` Witnessesz s THOMAS F. SHERIDAN, HARRY IRWIN CROMER. 

